The student newspaper at Miami University of Ohio ran a “memorial” piece commemorating the life of a student that people across the country are calling “insensitive” and “disgusting.”

The article reflected on the life of 22-year-old Tim Fresch, who died on April 13 after being taken off life support. He was found unconscious four days prior. Sources tell us he was a brother of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

The article focused almost exclusively on Fresch’s hard-partying ways, chalking his death up to an inevitable consequence of the dark side of college life.

“He was the funniest and nicest dude you’ll ever meet,” said [name redacted]. “He was like ‘Wazzup dude! My name’s Timmy!’ That’s literally the first thing he ever said to me. He did not stop smiling the entire night.”

After that first night, they became instant friends.

One weekend, two of [name redacted] friends came to visit Miami. [name redacted] said Timmy made it his personal mission to get the two visitors completely hammered.

Timmy succeeded in his mission and got one of [name redacted] friends to blackout. [name redacted] said his friend just fell over on the floor, passed out and started snoring. Timmy decided to get an airhorn, the kind that people commonly use at athletic events, and started blaring it into the guy’s ear. He didn’t budge and continued snoring. Timmy and the rest of the guys there thought it was the funniest thing ever.

“I work at [name redacted], and I created two drinks just for Timmy,” said [name redacted]. “I had to make the most disgusting, boozy concoctions just because he wanted me to make him something stupid.”

Fresch walked into [name redacted]’s first shift at the bar and waited for him to make him that ‘something stupid.’ [name redacted] started Fresch’s drink with a liquid cocaine shot which is Goldschlager, Jägermeister, and Bacardi 151.

“I basically made a drink with a shot and a half of liquid cocaine, gin, vodka and tequila,” said [name redacted]. “It pretty much fucks you up, and then I top that off with Red Bull and Coke. It’s absolutely disgusting, but he loved it.”

[name redacted] calls that concoction “The Fresch” and another “Timmy of the Beach,” which [name redacted] said is much better tasting.

“He loved to have a good time, but he had his demons. I’ll put it that way,” [name redacted] said. “The problem is, a lot of times the people who seem the happiest often have a lot of internal struggles. Look at Robin Williams. He was one of the happiest people in Hollywood, one of the most famously funny people, but he had a lot of demons like my buddy.”

[name redacted] said Timmy seemed to be dealing with those demons better than before. He took a little time off to get better and seemed happy to be back. He loved being at Miami with all of his friends.

“It was just a little too much of everything. A little too much can be a bad thing,” said [name redacted]. “He just went a little too far, but we need to remember him as the great person that he was.”

[name redacted] never saw Fresch’s death coming, but he acknowledged that it wasn’t out of the realm of possibility either.

“He was in a friend group of young, smart kids who lived together, and it was all over consumption and pushing your limits,” [name redacted] said about their time at boarding school. “I suppose that most of us grew out of that, but he did not.”

[name redacted] said it’s a habit that becomes routine. He got down a path that he couldn’t reverse.

“There’s just so much stigma around a lifestyle like that, and kids won’t reach out because they think that there isn’t new information and new help out there, but there is,” said [name redacted]. “Mental health is gaining a lot of traction now. We really just need to get the information to those people. When you really do finally know the facts, it becomes that much easier.”

After receiving hundreds of angry comments, two professors who help oversee the student newspaper defended the article.

Honest reporting on this crisis calls us all to task — faculty who cancel classes on Green Beer Day; a Greek system that seems incapable of self-regulation; parents who ignore early signs of alcohol abuse or mental illness; alumni who hear of rampant drinking and drugs and think: “Well, it’s college; I did that”; and especially students who cheer when friends drink or dose themselves toward oblivion.

What we hope is that amid the outrage, much of it sanctimonious, over a newspaper story, a few students will read that story and think: “That might have been me.”

We hope, too, that The Student’s story will spur our own community to refocus on this national crisis, rather than simply to mourn the loss of Timothy Fresch and move on.

I cannot fathom how this article was allowed to be published. It’s an absolute disgrace that makes Fresch out to be a complete goon who had it coming. Sure, I’d be fine with stories about drinks named after me in my eulogy, but making that the sole focus? The man spent 22 years on this planet, and the author boiled his existence down to shouting at people to get blackout drunk.

The response from the professors is just as deplorable. They say their intent was to shed light on the dangers of college partying while the community was focused on it. Go ahead. Do that. But do it in a separate piece that includes all the students who accidentally overdosed while partying. Don’t single out one man. And don’t single him out in the piece meant to celebrate his life..

**UPDATE**

Fresch’s brother, a popular DJ, posted a Facebook status that is a much more fitting memorial of Tim.

Using this comment position for good: scroll down and find the comment from One More Drink. It represents what feels like common knowledge and sentiment for the fraternity man, but it’s an important and timely reminder of how to care for our brothers.

Most the people here are such hypocrites it’s pathetic. You slam SJWs for getting offended over everything and you get outraged by this??? What a joke. This article is about a good guy, which the author made clear by quoting several people, who just took things a little too far. Suddenly a story about the guy saying let’s get blackout drunk and another CLOSE FRIEND referencing his demons after saying how great he was is slamming someone? The article is meant as a warning. If you are gonna shout about easily offended pussys then stop being one Boosh, and that goes for the rest of you. Also learn some God damn reading comprehension skills you fucks.

At least 80% of that article is positive and it says absolutely nothing negative about frats. You people get so outraged anytime a news story comes even remotely near touching frats, but think outrage over Trumps statements about all those Mexican rapists is killing America. So damn soft and whinny. Glad I didn’t house with you types.
T(Social Justice for)FM

Youre a little late to the game here bud. But if you think a slander piece regarding the death of an innocent student is no big deal. But defend outrage over non PC comments by Trump you need to rethink some things

A bunch of us have at least one fraternity brother who’s “going through some stuff.” I’m going to try to do a better job of addressing these issues when I see them, but it’s a tough road with no clear path. If any of you are in a similar situation, reach out when you can and let your brothers know you have their back.

RIP Timmy, I’ll be praying for your family and friends. It sounds like they lost a hell of a guy

The article immediately painted him as an out of control, alcoholic dumbass forcing his disease onto others. Then ends by clamming he suffered from severe depression and comparing him Robin Williams. You consider that an acceptable, professional memorial? Don’t forget – the defense includes blaming his parents, as well as peers. I’m sure they needed to hear some shitbag professor say they helped kill their son.

Ambivalent doesn’t work in that sentence, especially the way you are trying to use it. I think maybe you don’t know what the word means. I think maybe you heard someone else say it then puked it back up, just like most of your opinions on anything more complex than your drink order.

fucking pathetic what they are doing at Miami (OH). Fraternities are being bashed for what almost all kids do in college. What, we aren’t aloud to have fun too? They should be ashamed of their paper too. Who the fuck approved that and why aren’t they getting punished as well…

I wonder if an obituary for a woman who dies after a brutal sexual assault would focus upon the length of her skirt, how tight and low-cut her shirt was, and how much she had to drink the evening of the assault.

“Megan had the hottest rack I’ve ever seen, and she knew it too, bro. She showed those puppies off to anyone who’d care to look. And those skirts with fuck-me pumps . . . wow. Every guy wanted a piece of that.

We hope, too, that Megan’s brutal assault will cause women to think about walking around looking like they’re ready for a good time.”

Never happen, nor should it. Ditto here. This is a fucking abomination.

Id like this comment twice if I could. This article was so vile and my thoughts were precisly that. Imagine if it was a girl coming home from a party. You hit the nail on the head pointing out the hypocracy. Plus these are the same kids who say they are triggered by Donald Trumps name

Obligatory fuck the Miami Student. I encourage everyone to please comment on the article and try to get it removed. As a Miami student I can speak on behalf of the entire school that this is absolutely disgusting and needs to be taken down.

If this wasn’t a fraternity man’s eulogy, then the whole damn liberal population would be up in arms, demanding Trump drop out and removing the university from the face of the earth. Of course, I know bitching about it doesn’t help, and in doing so, makes me no better than them, but still…. come the fuck on Miami. You make me ashamed to be an Ohioan.

How is ‘you can be a good guy but still party too hard and die’ political. No one debates that. It’s not issues. They didn’t propse rule changes. They said if you or a friend needs help it’s out there. That is a public service announcement. Jesus Christ.

You are acting like a SJW and posting their emails is pathetic. I don’t know if you can’t read, form your own opinions, or are just angry, but you are blatantly wrong and out of bounds. You people are trash.

I don’t even know what the fuck their article was going on about. And that was a damn shitty way to twist the end into a perverse mental health PSA – just to weasel in a defense. No surprise the defense was equally assbackwards and disjointed from reality.

As a 10-year alumni and Alpha chapter member of Miami, I’m disgusted to see what has been happening on campus recently. The actions of administration and organizations such as the Student sickens myself and many fellow Greek alums that called Oxford home. I hope my fellow Redskin/Redhawk Greek men and women will hit them where it hurts most, the pocketbook. Some of the finest, most successful individuals I know from Miami are Greeks and the deplorable actions coming from campus these days are driving us away.

If this article was written about a person not in a fraternity people would be up in fuckin arms. Fuck the stigma that all greek life get, we regularly get way higher gpas than non greek, we give back to the community, we constantly get shit on for “partying” when literally every other college kid does the same, if not worse. Do gdi parties have sober monitors or DDs? Hell fuckin no. Fuck this person and fuck Miami

The people who wrote this article are pieces of stinking human shit, and so are the editors and professors who attempt to defend it. It is low class, PC crap. But it is free speech. So as much as we hate the turd sucking toads who wrote and defended it, the remedy is not to suppress speech, but to counter it. I hope someone will write a counter-obituary for him and demand that they publish it. That is what they should be forced to do. And let the writers and professors know, personally, that they are pieces of human garbage. But do it in a responsible way.

I’ve had the opportunity of meeting Tony after one of his shows I went to a while back. Such a humble dude who cares so much about his fans. Read this article earlier and saw the connection with the last name but didn’t connect the dots. My thought and prayers are with Tony and the rest of the Fresch family and close ones.

There’s just no way this guy’s life can be boiled down to “he liked to drink”. Publishing quotes from a bartender tells me this awful journalist/human being wanted to write this turd of an article from the very beginning and probably had no intention of really learning anything about him

This made my blood boil. Fuck the kid that wrote this. Just flat out ignorance at its finest. But even more so Fuck the professor that DEFENDED it. That guy should be fired. I’m a journalism major, and going into a field with people like these makes me fucking sick. Using a guys death to make a petty political statement is fucking disgusting and inexcusable. RIP Timmy sounds like we lost a good man.

Did I read a different article? They said nothing but good things except he had poblems. Some people do and pointing that out is good for everyone so we can help someone else. What are you talking about?!?